Archive for March, 2008
Today was the first day of the APPC - the Australian Postgraduate Philosophy Conference – held at the University of Sydney. I was also there yesterday for a research workshop that they ran. It was fascinating to see the Professors constantly explain their reluctance and uneasiness with the ‘analytical – continental’ divide, but then go on [...]
I’ve been reading Specters of Marx. Halfway through the first chapter, Derrida launches from his ruminations on time being ‘out of joint’, and the various senses that this might take – in particular when attempting to translate it into French – into a discussion of Heidegger, time, justice, the gift, and the various disjunctions that [...]
Reading a book review of Judith Butler’s in History and Theory on a book about Hegel in France in the 20th C., I was struck by just how important he was, particularly for the generation of scholars who were Derrida’s teachers in Paris. Just think, Jean Wahl, Jean Hyppolite, Alexandre Kojeve… So I went to [...]
